At the Feet of The Mother

Essays on Yoga

Essays and Letters by Dr Alok Pandey on Yoga

The Security Within

Apr 16, 2020

An Essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)

We worry and fear because we lack trust and surrender. But once the eyes of the soul are opened we see how meaningless are all our worries and cares when it is the Lord Himself who is taking care of all creatures.

Dousing the Destructive Fire

Apr 15, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

A Day Spent in Gratitude

Apr 12, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

An extra day has been given to us to change our life, to make our aspiration grow, to make our consecration more perfect, in short to make our life a shade better.

Locked Inside to Look Inside

Apr 11, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

For those who are clear about their goal and the path they have chosen, this isolation is an opportunity to intensify their aspiration, to go within in greater depths, to rise further in our quest for God and Freedom and Truth and Light and Immortality.

Sharing His Kingdom

Apr 10, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

It has been a great error of certain religions as well as of a strongly egocentric section of humanity to believe that God created everything for man’s pleasure and enjoyment. Rather we should say that He created all things for His delight.

A Step Towards Victory

Apr 9, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

We need not suffer this constant sense of a fatality that haunts our lives. We can recreate our fate each moment, rewrite the scroll of destiny, replace the script written by our trembling mind and heart with the script of the soul and thereby change a crisis, even a moment of inevitable death into a door of opportunity and a step towards victory.

The Key

Apr 8, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

It is indeed doubt and distrust, depression and despair, most of all fear that closes this inner door from where we can receive help beyond our imagination and stay always and under any and every circumstance with peace and a serene joy

The Great Departure

Apr 3, 2020

An article by Dr Alok Pandey on the occasion of 110th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s departure from Bengal for Pondicherry

The Tipping Point

Apr 3, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok (TEXT)

In a certain sense this whole virus affair is segregating humanity into at least two distinct parts. One that will introspect through this crisis and eventually emerge stronger and wiser. Another that will only end up with more and more fear and panic and loose the opportunity of reorienting its life.

The Life of Men

Apr 1, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

As we step aside from the whirl and vortex of everyday life, it is a chance to go still deeper into our souls, a chance to contemplate this wonderful Earth and us humanity upon it.

Closing Doors, Opening Hearts: Strangely Together in Our Isolation

Apr 1, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

We have come strangely together in our splendid isolation. We are being rewired no more through the divisive intellect but the great unifier, heart. We have closed our boundaries to others but our hearts have opened wide in a common bond of sympathy and oneness.

The Wounded, Healing Earth

Mar 31, 2020

AN ESSAY BY DR ALOK PANDEY (TEXT)

Resetting and Realigning Our Lives

Mar 30, 2020

An essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)

We must reconnect ourselves, reconnect not only with our own soul but also with the soul of Nature and the soul in all things. In this direction too we are being led by the secret Wisdom of Nature that has come garbed in the form of adversity.

How to Deal with Negative Thoughts

Mar 28, 2020

A LETTER BY DR ALOK PANDEY

... spend your energies cultivating inner Peace and Light and Wideness and Joy. This is much more effective and a long term solution than fighting with the darkness while being still oneself in darkness.

Is the time for earth destruction has come?

Mar 25, 2020

LETTERS ON YOGA BY DR ALOK PANDEY

Since the Supermind is here the earth's destruction is out of question. Everything that is happening and will happen will only push us closer towards the Goal. For the Supermind brings with it the certitude of divine victory.

The Lessons of the Crisis

Mar 21, 2020

An Essay by Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT)

The question is not what methods we have found to get over the present problem but rather what is the lesson it has come to teach us and whether we are willing and ready to learn it still.

Fits, Seizures, Drugs, and the Divine Grace

Mar 18, 2020

LETTERS ON YOGA BY DR ALOK PANDEY

Fits or seizures are an example of vital forces, generally of a lower order, trying to take possession of a human being. When the nervous system resists, the individual throws up a fit and the brain temporarily shuts down

The Grace

Mar 14, 2020

Letters on Yoga by Dr Alok Pandey

Grace is the Divine Power that has leaped down from the heart of the Supreme to help creation move towards its goal. In a general way this mysterious Grace supports creation from behind giving it the needed push for progress.